JOHN CLARKE: Well, Bryan, let me clear about this: the media got this wrong. The media's been carrying on for a long time as if this was all over. It is not.

BRYAN DAWE: Yep. And it hasn't happened that way at all.

JOHN CLARKE: It is not. No, no, no, quite the reverse, Bryan. We've had this strike bowler, um, ...

BRYAN DAWE: Bishop. Yep.

JOHN CLARKE: Bishop, yeah, yeah.

BRYAN DAWE: There's some pretty big claims about him before the series.

JOHN CLARKE: Well, Bishop made a lotta claims herself. You know, she's gone down the wicket and said, "You know, what are you doing here? You're hopeless. You shouldn't even be here. I'm gonna knock your head off."

BRYAN DAWE: Yeah. She actually accused Gillard of being involved in match fixing.

JOHN CLARKE: She said publicly that Gillard had been involved in a bank robbery, for goodness sake.

BRYAN DAWE: Yeah, there's a bit of sledging going on out there.

JOHN CLARKE: Well I don't think Gillard minds a bitta sledging, Bryan, but if you're the person doing the sledging, you'd better take wickets.

BRYAN DAWE: Yeah, Bishop's figures - I mean.

JOHN CLARKE: You've gotta do the business out in the middle.

BRYAN DAWE: Bishop's figures, oh dear.

JOHN CLARKE: Shocking figures, Bryan. Appalling figures.

BRYAN DAWE: None for 724.

JOHN CLARKE: None for 724, Bryan. Worst bowling figures in the history of cricket.

BRYAN DAWE: 108 wides.

JOHN CLARKE: Sprayed it all over the joint. I've never seen anything like it, Bryan.

BRYAN DAWE: Yeah. Can he shoulder her place in the side on those figures?

JOHN CLARKE: Yeah, that's a very good question, Bryan. And who'd have thought we'd be having this conversation. She said she was gonna go through them like a knife through butter.

BRYAN DAWE: Packet of Epsom salts, I think she said.

JOHN CLARKE: Absolutely.

BRYAN DAWE: And she'll be much more at home at the WACA though, I think.

JOHN CLARKE: She will be, Bryan, but, you know, the WACA can turn nasty. We've seen that before.

BRYAN DAWE: Yeah, it can turn nasty, the WACA.

JOHN CLARKE: That's right.

BRYAN DAWE: What's Abbott doing, do you think? I mean, why didn't he bring himself on earlier?

BRYAN DAWE: I mean, he just watched Bishop getting belted all over the park the other day.

JOHN CLARKE: Yeah, watched her getting carted all over the ground.

BRYAN DAWE: He didn't even bowl.

JOHN CLARKE: Just stood there at silly point doing nothing.

BRYAN DAWE: No, he might be carrying an injury. I mean, he was moving slowly.

JOHN CLARKE: He didn't look at all easy, Bryan. I got the binoculars on him and I think it's a thigh, possibly two thighs.

BRYAN DAWE: Sure. What about Turnbull?

JOHN CLARKE: Well, still carrying a hockey injury, Bryan, and not playing.

BRYAN DAWE: And what was Pyne doing?

JOHN CLARKE: I think Pyne's gonna have to have a look at himself, Bryan. I've been watching Pyne. Pyne needs to have a very good look at himself.

BRYAN DAWE: Isn't that the problem?

JOHN CLARKE: To a degree it is the problem, Bryan, but he got a pair.

BRYAN DAWE: Yeah, he did. But he liked walking out and back again, didn't he?

JOHN CLARKE: He does like looking at himself on the big monitor, crossing the sword with the little duck under him, doesn't he?

BRYAN DAWE: Well let's hope for a good match, eh?

JOHN CLARKE: Yeah, we're looking forward to tomorrow, Bryan. Should be a cracker. But it's not the foregone conclusion we we're told it would be.

BRYAN DAWE: OK, see ya later. Thankyou.

JOHN CLARKE: Make no mistake about that, Bryan.

LEIGH SALES: And that was the final Clarke and Dawe for this year. I'm delighted to say they'll be back on ABC1 in 2013.

It's also my last night before the Christmas break. My colleague, Chris Uhlmann, will be in the chair from Monday and tomorrow you'll have your local editions of 7.30 of course. All the best for the festive season and I'll see you again in January. Goodnight.